The read
Audiences rate it 49 points higher than critics do. Most of the 4,571 2010s comedy movies in this catalog score higher. It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
Maggie is an uptight, single mother and college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, she decides to embark on a journey to a Tuscan village where she frequented in her younger days. Upon arrival, Maggie runs into Luca a handsome former lover who is still a bachelor and lives with his eighty-year-old mother Carmen. Summer (missing her “bad boy” boyfriend in NYC) and Carmen (secretly planning a wedding against Luca’s wishes to MARCELINO, her one true love in Rome) impulsively steal Luca’s car and race off to Rome. Maggie and Luca quickly pursue allowing the two mismatched couples to spend some time together and develop a new understanding of each other.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 49 points higher than critics do.
268 audience votes
Key crew
- Alfonso G. AguilarOriginal Music Composer
- Josh AppignanesiWriter
- Cindy MyersWriter
- Ella LemhagenDirector
Cast
- Sarah Jessica ParkerMaggie
- Paz VegaGiulia Carni
- Claudia CardinaleCarmen
- Raoul BovaLuca
- Rosie DaySummer
- Nadir CaselliValentina
- Marco BoniniInspector Moravia
- Shel ShapiroMarcellino
- Walter D'ErricoRomolo
- Gianclaudio CarettaOrazio
- Chiara BassermannNurse
- Barney HarrisTyler
